--- Title: Stresses Social Consciousness As Vital To Success Description: The Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 8 March 1934, p. 1. Short unsigned report of Alfred Adler's lecture "The Challenge of Individual Psychology as a Social Psychology" at Skidmore College on the evening of 7 March 1934, under the auspices of the Psychology Club, introduced by its president Constance O'Brien; social interest, pampered childhood and social delinquency. Author: Periodista sin firma URL: https://adler.school/archivo/adler/cronicas/original/1934-03-08%20Stresses%20Social%20Consciousness%20As%20Vital%20To%20Success --- # STRESSES SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS VITAL TO SUCCESS "Failure in education and failure to live up to the standards of society are the result of a lack of social interest," according to Dr. Alfred Adler, well known psychologist and educator of Vienna in his lecture on "The Challenge of Individual Psychology as a Social Psychology" at Skidmore College last evening. Dr. Adler came under the auspices of the Psychology Club of which Miss Constance O'Brien of Corning, is the president. Miss O'Brien introduced the speaker. Dr. Adler stressed the importance of social-consciousness. Without it a person can make no satisfactory adjustments in life, he said. The speaker pointed out that all kinds of social delinquency are the product of a pampered childhood. Hence it is very important that the child's habits be turned in the right direction from the very beginning. The best measure of an individual is the degree of his social interest—his ability to cooperate with others and to contribute to the life of others. --- *Fuente:* "Stresses Social Consciousness As Vital To Success", *The Saratogian*, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Thursday, 8 March 1934, p. 1, col. 4; unsigned. Transcribed from the page image at fultonhistory.com (Saratoga Springs NY Saratogian 1934), rendered at 300 dpi; the right margin of the column is slightly cut in the copy and the line ends are confirmed by the OCR. The same day's society page reported a dinner for Dr. Adler at The Fairweather with Dr. and Mrs. Linus Ward Kline and the Psychology Club (fultonhistory.com, file -0679; not transcribed). Neighbouring items on the page omitted.